A new beta version has been released of the open source renderer aimed at animation and VFX. Version 2.0 includes several significant improvements to the core including improved subsurface scattering, NPR shaders, and new visualisation tools. The plugins see updates too with interactive rendering and AOVs in the Blender addon, volumetric rendering and denoising in the 3DS Max plugin and support for AOVs in Maya. For more information and to download visit GitHub, to find out more about the project you can visit the Appleseed website.
Appleseed 2.0 beta released
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Its CPU or GPU acceleration ? Great to see new company in the market! I will follow the project 😉
CPU and it’s open source and couple of years of development behind. They have done a lot of development and now it shapes to a nice render.